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A Cessna 310, the same model family as N20WF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026
N20WF

Cessna 310R

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N20WF is a Cessna 310R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harlingen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 1, 1976. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
310R · all 310Rs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 310 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
310R0684
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1976
Transponder code
A191A4 (octal 50310644)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 4, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 4, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 1, 1976
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00772855

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lofton Christopher L
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
20898 Ebony Rd
Harlingen, TX 78550-1844

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 2

2026-10-07Loan release
2026-10-07Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N20WF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
  • Type certificate 3A10 · held by Textron Aviation INC
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N20WF.json.

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The public federal record on N20WF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lofton Christopher L, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 1, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310R0684 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N20WF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Loan release (October 7, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 7, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N20WF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data